OK Boru, Sparta, everyone on Vista, now I know what you mean about the
grouping and
click and drag not working for you. Its becouse of the latest drivers.
They work great for XP but they're buggy on Vista. I played my first battle last night and after about 20 min I had the same problems as you guys. The spacebar didnt show me where my troops were going, when I clicked and draged out a line the little green dots didnt appear. Very frustrating.
Also see if you can see your cities in a campaign...are they gone now?
Thats becouse of the new Nvidea drivers for Vista.
Anyway the solution is to download the 182.50 driver again. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
Thats the driver that has always ran the smoothest and doesnt bug out(for empires anyway).